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The Music of Germaine Tailleferre, Vol. II
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Artist
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California Parallele Ensemble. University of California, Santa Cruz Orchestra. Nicole Paiement, conductor.
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Label
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Helicon
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Format
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CD
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Runtime/Release Date
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61'46/1999
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Label Number
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1048
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Daedalus Item Code
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27429
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Description
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At the Paris Conservatory, a youthful Germaine Tailleferre won first prizes for sight-reading, harmony, counterpoint, fugue, and accompaniment—surpassing her classmates and lifelong friends Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, and Georges Auric. For attempting Stravinskian improvisations, however, she was booted out of organ class. This volume includes her Concerto for piano and orchestra (premiered by Cortot under Stokowski); the Valse lente, reminiscent of the café or music hall; the equally bittersweet Pastorale for violin and piano; the important Concertino for flute, piano, and chamber orchestra; the newly discovered Partita for flute, clarinet, oboe, and strings; and more. "Tailleferre's serious yet gorgeously atmospheric music comes as a revelation, with its distinct, pungent voice, combining Poulenc's saucy wit, Ravel's exoticism, and an entirely unexpected New Age sensibility. The recorded sound is close and robust, with the emphasis rightly on the piano exuberantly played by American Josephine Gandolfi. A fine disc to listen to again and again."—La Scena Musicale "There was little here of what Milhaud called, with reference to others, 'nicely-scented young-lady music,' but rather, in Cortot's words, 'a lively and witty expression of a sprightly temper ... impregnated with the clearest and nimblest musical mind.' She composed, as it were, to Cocteau's order for 'music of human proportions'."—The New Leader
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